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Yola d'Avril is a Actor French born on 8 april 1907 at Lille (France)
Yola d'Avril (1907 – 1984) was a French-born actress, who appeared in numerous American productions between 1925 and 1953.
She was born in Lille, France, and died in Port Hueneme, California as Yola d'Arvil Montiague.
During World War I, her family relocated to Paris. After her father died in 1923, she moved to Los Angeles. She appeared in MGM's adventure film, Tarzan and His Mate with Italian actor Paul Porcasi as her father, Monsieur Feronde.
^ "California Death index". The California Department of Health Services Office of Health Information and Research vital Statistics Section. Retrieved 2007-11-20.
^ "Biography of Yola D’Avril". americanbiography.org. July 6, 2008.
Entretemps, elle apparaît notamment dans La Vallée des géants de Charles Brabin (1927, avec Milton Sills et Doris Kenyon), She Goes to War d'Henry King (1929, avec Eleanor Boardman), Le Revenant de Berthold Viertel (1932, avec Claudette Colbert et Clive Brook), À Paris tous les trois de Wesley Ruggles (1937, avec Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas et Robert Young), ou encore Cape et Poignard de Fritz Lang (1946, avec Gary Cooper et Lilli Palmer).
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Yola d'Avril
Nationality France
Birth 8 april 1907 at Lille (France)
Death 2 march 1984 (at 76 years) at Port Hueneme (USA)
Birth 8 april 1907 at Lille (France)
Death 2 march 1984 (at 76 years) at Port Hueneme (USA)
Yola d'Avril (1907 – 1984) was a French-born actress, who appeared in numerous American productions between 1925 and 1953.
She was born in Lille, France, and died in Port Hueneme, California as Yola d'Arvil Montiague.
During World War I, her family relocated to Paris. After her father died in 1923, she moved to Los Angeles. She appeared in MGM's adventure film, Tarzan and His Mate with Italian actor Paul Porcasi as her father, Monsieur Feronde.
^ "California Death index". The California Department of Health Services Office of Health Information and Research vital Statistics Section. Retrieved 2007-11-20.
^ "Biography of Yola D’Avril". americanbiography.org. July 6, 2008.
Biography
Installée en 1923 aux États-Unis, Yola d'Avril y fait carrière au cinéma et contribue à soixante-et-onze films américains (dont une dizaine muets), sortis à partir de 1925, comme second rôle de caractère ou dans des petits rôles non crédités. Son dernier film est Le Petit Garçon perdu de George Seaton (avec Bing Crosby et Claude Dauphin), sorti en 1953.Entretemps, elle apparaît notamment dans La Vallée des géants de Charles Brabin (1927, avec Milton Sills et Doris Kenyon), She Goes to War d'Henry King (1929, avec Eleanor Boardman), Le Revenant de Berthold Viertel (1932, avec Claudette Colbert et Clive Brook), À Paris tous les trois de Wesley Ruggles (1937, avec Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas et Robert Young), ou encore Cape et Poignard de Fritz Lang (1946, avec Gary Cooper et Lilli Palmer).
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Little Boy Lost (1953)
, 1h35Directed by George Seaton, William Perlberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama
Actors Bing Crosby, Claude Dauphin, Gabrielle Dorziat, Christian Fourcade, Nicole Maurey, Michael Moore
Roles M Le Blanc
Rating67%
During World War II an American war correspondent, Bill Wainwright (played by Crosby), was stationed in Paris. He met and fell in love with a French singer, Lisa Garret (played by Maurey). They married and had a son, Jean.
The Red Ball Express (1952)
, 1h23Directed by Budd Boetticher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Transport films, Trucker films, Political films, Road movies
Actors Jeff Chandler, Sidney Poitier, Alex Nicol, Charles Drake, Hugh O'Brian, Davis Roberts
Roles Serveuse du bar
Rating62%
Ce film s'inspire de l'histoire du vrai « Red Ball Express. »
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
, 1h29Directed by Anatole Litvak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Wendell Corey, Ed Begley, Harold Vermilyea, Leif Erickson
Roles La servante française
Rating72%
Leona Stevenson (Barbara Stanwyck) is the spoiled, bedridden daughter of wealthy businessman James Cotterell (Ed Begley). One day, while listening to what seems to be a crossed telephone connection, she hears two men planning a woman's murder. The call cuts off without Leona learning very much other than it is scheduled for 11:15, when a passing train will hide any sounds. She calls the telephone company and the police, but with few concrete details, they can do nothing. Complicating matters, her husband Henry (Burt Lancaster) is overdue and their servants have the night off, leaving her all alone in a Manhattan apartment.
Cloak and Dagger (1946)
, 1h46Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Spy, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer, Robert Alda, Vladimir Nikolayevich Sokoloff, J. Edward Bromberg, Marc Lawrence
Roles La première infirmière
Rating65%
L'action se déroule pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Un chercheur italien qui a découvert la formule de la bombe atomique est aux mains des Allemands. Un espion américain fait tout pour le délivrer.
Monsieur Beaucaire (1946)
, 1h33Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Bob Hope, Joan Caulfield, Patric Knowles, Marjorie Reynolds, Cecil Kellaway, Joseph Schildkraut
Roles Gouvernante
Rating66%
King Louis XV of France is invited by his rival King Philip V of Spain to choose a suitable husband for Philip's daughter, Princess Maria, as a gesture of unity between their two nations. Louis's choice is Duc le Chandre, but the duke fancies Madame Pompadour, as does the king.
The Lady Has Plans (1942)
, 1h17Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, Albert Dekker, Margaret Hayes, Cecil Kellaway
Roles Une servante de l'hôtel
Rating65%
A gang of criminals steal some top secret plans and tattoo them in invisible ink on the back of a beautiful young girl, planning to sell them to the highest bidder in Lisbon.
Now, Voyager (1942)
, 1h57Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper, Bonita Granville, Mary Wickes
Roles Célestine
Rating78%
Drab Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis) is an unattractive, overweight, repressed spinster whose life is brutally dominated by her dictatorial mother (Gladys Cooper), an aristocratic Boston dowager whose verbal and emotional abuse of her daughter has contributed to the woman's complete lack of self-confidence. It is revealed that Mrs. Vale had already brought up three sons, and Charlotte was an unwanted child born to her late in life. Fearing Charlotte is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, her sister-in-law Lisa (Ilka Chase) introduces her to psychiatrist Dr. Jaquith (Claude Rains), who recommends she spend time in his sanatarium.
Gone with the Wind (1940)
, 4h3Directed by George Cukor, Victor Fleming, Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Rape and revenge films, Political films, Auto-justice
Actors Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen
Roles une fille de Belle Watling
Rating81%
Part 1 On the eve of the American Civil War in 1861, Scarlett O'Hara lives at Tara, her family's cotton plantation in Georgia, with her parents and two sisters. Scarlett learns that Ashley Wilkes—whom she secretly loves—is to be married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton, and the engagement is to be announced the next day at a barbecue at Ashley's home, the nearby plantation Twelve Oaks.
Green Hell (1940)
, 1h27Directed by James Whale
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Romance
Actors Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Vincent Price, Joan Bennett, Alan Hale, George Sanders, John Howard
Rating57%
A group of adventurers journey deep into the South American jungle in search of ancient Incan treasure. A beautiful woman, brought to their camp by hired bearers, has come to join her husband, a newer member of the group, who was recently killed by hostile natives. As the months pass, jealousies and tempers flare as fights break out over the woman. The Incan treasure is eventually found but the treaure-seekers, now united by a common enemy, are about to be attacked by hordes of fierce natives armed with bows and poisoned arrows.
I Met Him in Paris (1937)
, 1h26Directed by Wesley Ruggles
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Young, Lee Bowman, Mona Barrie, Jean De Briac
Roles La femme française de la chambre 617
Rating60%
Kay Denham est fiancée à Berk Sutter, mais elle ne pense qu'à une chose : visiter Paris. Berk se résout à la laisser partir. À bord du paquebot, elle fait la connaissance de Gene Anders et de George Potter. Le premier a des manières enjôleuses et presse Kay de partir pour un séjour en Suisse. Potter, quant à lui, est très pragmatique, mais il tombe également sous le charme de la jeune femme, et se décide à la suivre, pour la préserver des avances de son ami.
Captain Blood (1935)
, 1h59Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Ross Alexander, Lionel Atwill, Donald Meek
Roles Une fille à la taverne
Rating76%
In 17th century England, an Irish doctor named Peter Blood (Errol Flynn) is summoned to aid Lord Gildoy, a wounded patron who had participated in the Monmouth Rebellion. Arrested while performing his duties as a physician, he is convicted of treason against the King and sentenced to death by the infamous Judge Jeffreys. By the whim of King James II, who sees an opportunity for profit, Blood and the surviving rebels are transported to the West Indies to be sold into slavery.
Glamour (1934)
, 1h14Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Paul Lukas, Constance Cummings, Phillip Reed, Joseph Cawthorn, Doris Lloyd, Luis Alberni
Rating60%
An ambitious chorus girl marries an up-and-coming composer.
Monte Carlo Nights (1934)
, 1h2Directed by William Nigh
Origin USA
Genres Crime, Romance
Actors Mary Brian, John Darrow, Yola d'Avril, Astrid Allwyn, George "Gabby" Hayes, Robert Frazer
Roles Madelon
Rating51%
A man wrongfully convicted of murder escapes custody and goes in search of real killer. The problem is that he only has one clue to go on.
Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
, 1h44Directed by Jack Conway, Cedric Gibbons
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Films about children, Le thème de l'enfant sauvage, Films about lions, Films about apes, L'enfance marginalisée, Tarzan films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil Hamilton, Paul Cavanagh, Forrester Harvey, Ray Corrigan
Roles Mme Feronde
Rating71%
The film begins with Tarzan and Jane Parker living in the jungle. Harry Holt and his business partner Martin Arlington meet up with them on their way to take ivory from an elephant burial ground. Holt tries to convince Jane, who was with him on his first trip to the jungle, to return with him by bringing her gifts from civilization including clothing and modern gadgets but she tells them she would rather stay with Tarzan.
The Man from Yesterday (1932)
, 1h11Directed by Fred Zinnemann, Henry Hathaway, Berthold Viertel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Claudette Colbert, Clive Brook, Charles Boyer, Andy Devine, Alan Mowbray, Greta Meyer
Roles Tony's Girl
Rating59%
In Paris at the end of the First World War, Sylvia Suffolk and British officer Tony Clyde get married, shortly before Tony leaves for the front. Sylvia, newly pregnant, is given the news that Tony is dead while working as a nurse for surgeon René Gaudin. Sylvia gradually falls in love with René, but is reluctant to remarry since she has no official news of Tony's death. On holiday in Switzerland with René, Sylvia is shocked to find Tony is still alive, and convalescing, and now finds herself torn between duty to Tony and marriage to René.